Zusammenfassung der Ressource
SECULARISATION
- The decline in influence of religion in society as a whole.
- CONSEQUENCES OF SECULARISATION
- Changing social attitudes and norms.
- Changing attitudes to different family types, e.g. same-sex family.
- New Laws
- Easier to divorce
- Gay marriage
- Late and Postmodernists have a positive view of secularisation.
- Religion used to guide and define traditions in society.
- Strong moral code
- Guidance
- Used to be a strong agent of socialisation.
- Shaped traditions and values, e.g. marriage vows.